Database VIEW does not reflect the data in the underying TABLE

Question

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The customer claims that the application (.NET) when querying for some data returns data different from when the customer looks into the data table directly

Answer 1

You can create views with locking hints which would mean you might be getting a dirty read. Or alternatively when they access the table directly, they might be using locking hints which could be giving them a dirty read at that point.

Another possibility that users don't seem to understand is that the data is fluid. The data you read at 3:00 in a view may not be the same data that you see at 3:30 looking directly at the table becasue there have been changes in the meantime.